2d. The corruption of the cheap trash literature, that is now ordinarily
supplied for the amusement and instruction of the American people,--and
that threatens to uproot and annihilate all the notions of virtue and
morals that remain, in spite of sectarianism,--calls for some antidote,
some remedy. In every rail car, omnibus, stage coach, steamboat, or
canal packet, publications, containing the most poisonous principles and
destructive errors, are presented to, and are purchased by, passengers
of both sexes, whose minds, like the appetites of hungry animals, will
take to eating the filthiest stuff, rather than want food for
rumination. It is for the philanthropists of the present day, and for
those who are paid for making such inquiries, to trace the connection
between the _roués_ of your cities, your Bloomer women, your spiritual
rappers, and other countless extravagances of a diseased public mind,
and between the abominable publications to which we allude.

3d. Our people are not generally great readers of the trashy newspapers
of the day; and in this respect they show their good sense, or at least
have happened on good luck: it is therefore our duty to supply them with
cheap and amusing literature, to entertain them during the few hours
they are disengaged from work. And what reading can afford the Irish
Catholic greater pleasure than any work, however imperfect, having for
its end the exaltation and defence of his glorious old faith, and the
vindication of his native land--his beloved "Erin-go-bragh"? Impress on
his susceptible mind the honor and advantage of defence and fidelity to
the CROSS and the SHAMROCK, and you give him two ideas that will come to
his aid in most of his actions through life. We are ashamed here of the
cross of Christ, when we see it continually dishonored and trampled on
by heretics and modern pagans, in their scramble for money and pleasures.
On the other hand, the poverty, humiliation, and rags of old Erin, of